Re: [soa-iwg] IWG media launch on April 22

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Skerrett wrote:
> Zsolt,
>
> Thanks for posting these.   I think these are a good start, see 
> comments below, but I think we need to have some technology oriented 
> features.   What is new/exciting/different that will result from the 
> IWG?  Why is the IWG different from other SOA solutions?

I trust that my previous enumeration of ECF contributions makes clear 
that we provide

a) some technology-oriented features (remote services standard impl, as 
well as REST and SOAP support for remote services)
b) something relatively new/exciting/different (new standards 
implemented, also REST is currently 'hot' in technology).


> On 4/13/2010 9:50 AM, Zsolt Beothy-Elo wrote:
> > Here are SOPERAS findings of the of the top 5 new/exciting things 
> > that will be accomplished by the IWG:
> >
> >    *
> >
> >       The foundation of the new IWG shows the strong interest of the
> >       industry in the further server-side development of Eclipse
> >       technologies
> >
> >    *
> >
> >       The foundation of the IWG is also a strong signal that SOA
> >       technologies and projects within Eclipse have reached a good
> >       level of maturity. Because of this, the industry now is
> >       interested in using Eclipse technologies in own products
> Do we have examples of companies using the IWG technology for their 
> products.  I am assuming Sopera has a product available, can we 
> reference it.  Are there other companies/products?

ECF's rs contribution is being used by companies...e.g.

http://industrial-tsi-wim.blogspot.com/2010/03/ecf-discovery-how-many-zookeepers-does.html
http://wiki.eclipse.org/ECF/Adopters
Jeff's OSGi Book/Toast

There are others...particularly since our osgi 4.2 rs support just came 
out (in Feb)...but I can't keep up with recording them (and no one is 
required to let me know, of course).


> >    *
> >
> >
> >
> >    *
> >
> >       Through the foundation of the Eclipse SOA IWG, the goal of the
> >       creation of a fully functional, common SOA platform on the
> >       basis of Eclipse will be reached much faster
> >
> >    *
> >
> >       The interoperability between the platforms of the IWG members
> >       will be further strengthened
> Can you explain this more or give examples of interoperability?

One example of interoperability from ECF rs is the use of the OSGi 
standard...as it provides API-level interoperability for clients of 
remote services (they can be written without reference to a particular 
implementation, serialization format, or protocol...i.e. one can write a 
remote service host and/or consumer and have it work over ECF rs, CXF, 
other impls.

Scott